A recent thread on the Buildroot mailing list about the use of Buildroot in practice got me thinking about why I created BeagleBox and similar systems at work. So I wrote up a paper on it and put it on my wiki. Comments and criticicisms are welcome. Related posts cdtools, […] Metabuilds for Embedded DevelopmentSun March 27, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux tagged beagleboard / BeagleBox / buildroot / crosstool-ng / Development / embedded development / metabuild / Metabuilds
The media server hooked to my big Sony Bravia in the living room has been running MythTV for awhile now, though my wife has never been a big fan of its UI. In fact, she hasn't asked to use it. Ever. She prefers the ease of use of Web based […] XBMC: two thumbs up from the wifeSun March 20, 2011 in Linux / MythTV / Open Source / XBMC tagged Bravia / mythbackend / MythTV / Sony / XBMC
Sitting around this weekend taking care of one of my pups (Bailey, who just had TPLO surgery to fix a torn ACL) I decided to take a deeper look at the problem with the cross toolchain supporting NEON instructions. I did a few more Google searches and found the Linaro […] BeagleBox: fixed NEON problems in cross toolchainSat March 12, 2011 in BeagleBox / Hardware / Linux / omapfb / Software Development / X11 tagged BeagleBox / neon / toolchain